'It was morally wrong': Catholic hospital apologizes for arguing that a fetus is not a human.

It was a startling assertion that seemed an about-face from church doctrine: A Catholic hospital arguing in a Colorado court that twin fetuses that died in its care were not, under state law, human beings.

When the two-year-old court filing surfaced last month, it triggered an avalanche of criticism — because the legal argument seemed to plainly clash with the church's centuries-old stance that life begins at conception.

But it is also now fueling an already raging debate in Colorado and beyond about whether fetuses should have legal rights and, if so, what kind.

On Monday, the hospital and the state's bishops released a statement acknowledging it was 'morally wrong' to make the legal argument.

1. It was hypocritical of the Catholic

Hospital to deny church doctrine in their arguments, though I don't see how, according to state law, any other outcome could happen. The hospital and diocese could offer some sort of recompense. I don't know why they ignored the fetuses if the father had given the go ahead for a c-section to save the babies. That makes little sense to me.